Secular charities. One that I personally respect the most is Doctors without Borders.

African societies are not the same as ours. They have completely different mores. The missionaries come over and basically invade their society, set up a church building and start spreading the word of jesus. They teach them all your folk tales as if they were true, and teach them about their idea of sin and damnation. And part of those sins are using any form of birth control.
Doctors without borders is over there trying desperately to educate them about how condoms and their proper use can drastically reduce infrection and spread of HIV. Then the priests <ptooey> come behind them and tell them they're going to hell if they use the condoms.

I am not asking about secular charities.....I know there are a ton that do wonderful work. I was wondering if there are any expressly atheist charities......charities driven by the unifying power of a common cause.

Edited: Woops - I did find one on the list from the link you provided: http://foundationbeyondbelief.org/mission
Very minor charity: ~$100K per GuideStar.
Do you know of any others? Are you part of any or do you contribute to them?

You bring up "christian" mission efforts that do not accomplish what you feel are good results. Do you know any that accomplish results that you feel are satisfactory/good? What do you think the ratio of "christian" charities/mission organizations are that accomplish satisfactory versus unsatisfactory results?

There are charities of all stripes that do good. Christian as well as nearly any other heretical religion.
Some of them just carry the religion part two far and too fast for the local population to be really comfortable with their invasion, Secular is non-religious. Atheist is non religious. Trying to pick out only athiests is like asking where are the "only men with beards" charities. Atheists join secular charities because we as a general rule don't go out to proclaim and gather our disbelief into groups.

You are an atheist, Yes you are.

Do you believe in and worship the Hindu goddess of time and death, Kali?

If you don't believe their gods are as true as yours, then you sir, are an atheist. I just go one god further than you do.

Unlike i'm sure you're told within the dark and evil heroin filled cults you guys hang out in, of how the atheists are performing strange satanic rituals and kidnapping a small virgin child of christian parents. We will then bathe,dry and perfume this child and paint him as as idol, hold him aloft as an offering to the memory of Carl Sagan and then begin the feast, Baby in the food processor!!!

Trying to pick out only athiests is like asking where are the "only men with beards" charities.

That's an easy one - the Amish charities.

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Atheists join secular charities because we as a general rule don't go out to proclaim and gather our disbelief into groups.

I did notice on that link you provided that there are a fair amount of atheist organizations whose purpose is to spread awareness of atheism. Nothing inherently wrong with that.

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Originally Posted by Heathen

You are an atheist, Yes you are.
Do you believe in and worship the Hindu goddess of time and death, Kali?
If you don't believe their gods are as true as yours, then you sir, are an atheist. I just go one god further than you do.

Interesting how you rail against other people redefining terms & definitions as they go and here you are making up definitions that are nowhere to be found our dictionaries.

Unlike i'm sure you're told within the dark and evil heroin filled cults you guys hang out in, of how the atheists are performing strange satanic rituals and kidnapping a small virgin child of christian parents. We will then bathe,dry and perfume this child and paint him as as idol, hold him aloft as an offering to the memory of Carl Sagan and then begin the feast, Baby in the food processor!!!

Dude - this is plain weirdness. I have never heard of Christian cults meeting in dark heroin filled places.......and I have no such perception of atheists. Quite the opposite - most atheists I have conversed with are intelligent, thoughtful, caring people.....and many of them probably live up to a higher level of morality than I do.

Your descriptions of things in the last few days are starting to paint a different picture of you as a person however. Either you are being serious (and that really concerns me where you are as a person) or you are attempting humor (which would speak to character issues). There might be other conclusions to draw, but I can't think of them right now.

An Atheist doesn't believe in a god. You don't believe in their gods. therefore you are an atheist when it comes to their religions. Not with repect to your own. Whats hard to understand about that? Are you saying that you need me to break that down into 3rd grade words so you have a better chance of understanding?

It's a play on history, one you should be familiar with as it is a part of the history of christianity. Romans had rumours that christian groups would steal their newborn children, Christians comtinues the rediculous lies and accused jews of stealing virgin christian blood for use in rites to reinvigorate them or to cure wounds.

A little bit of knowledge of your religions beginnings would leave you in a better place to understand references such as these. But of course a little knowledge makes it harder to ignore all the atrocities your god commited with such relish.

It's a play on history, one you should be familiar with as it is a part of the history of christianity. Romans had rumours that christian groups would steal their newborn children, Christians comtinues the rediculous lies and accused jews of stealing virgin christian blood for use in rites to reinvigorate them or to cure wounds.

A little bit of knowledge of your religions beginnings would leave you in a better place to understand references such as these. But of course a little knowledge makes it harder to ignore all the atrocities your god commited with such relish.

I have never been a history guy. I struggled through that stuff in school and still find it pretty boring to read about or watch on TV. Much more a math and science guy.

What I do find interesting is that you find the historicity of of these rumors valid enough to base your arguments and beliefs on. I will keep that in mind if we get onto the topic of the historicity of the New Testament accounts.